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ADMINISTRATION
Angel T. Tuninetti
Department Chair / Associate Professor
Ph.D. Washington University
Specialization: Latin American literature and culture
Email: angel.tuninetti@mail.wvu.edu
Web site:
Susan Braidi
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Specialization: Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition, and Syntax
Email: sbraidi@wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/%7esbraidi
FACULTY
Maria Jesus Amores
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Specialization: Spanish, Applied linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy
Email: mamores@as.wvu.edu
Personal Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/forlang/amores
Susan Braidi
Associate Chair
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Delaware
Specialization: Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition, and Syntax
Email: sbraidi@wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/%7esbraidi
Cynthia Chalupa
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Specialization: Fin-de-si German and Austrian literature, Poetry, Foreign Language Pedagogy.
Email: cychalupa@mail.wvu.edu
Lisa DiBartolomeo
Teaching Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Specialization: Russian and Polish languages and literatures, Slavic folklore, science fiction, film, Eastern European cinema, Holocaust literature and cinema
Email: Lisa.DiBartolomeo@mail.wvu.edu
Sandra Dixon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Brown University
Specialization: Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian literature.
Email: sdixon@wvu.edu
Michael Ennis
Teaching Assistant Professor
Michael.Ennis@mail.wvu.edu
Ahmed Fakhri
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Specialization: Applied linguistics, syntax, discourse analysis
Email: afakhri@wvu.edu
Daniel F. Ferreras
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Specialization: Romance languages and literature
Email: dferrera@wvu.edu
Pablo Garcia
(Spanish, Latin American Literature and Culture, especially the colonial period)
Pablo Gonzalez
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.University of Madrid
Specialization: Latin American literature and culture
Email: Pablo.Gonzalez@mail.wvu.edu
Deborah Janson
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Specialization: GDR and post-Wende Literature; Minority Literature of the German-speaking countries; German Enlightenment-Romanticism; Ecofeminism
Email: djanson@wvu.edu
Xiangying Jiang
Assistant Professor of TESOL
Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
Specialization: Applied linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Reading
Email: Xiangying.Jiang@mail.wvu.edu
Michael Lastinger
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Specialization: French Culture and Civilization, 19th-Century Culture
Email: Michael.Lastinger@mail.wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/mlastinger
Valerie Lastinger
Professor
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Specialization: 18th-century French literature,
French women writers, French civilization.
Email: vlasting@wvu.edu
Web site: www.as.wvu.edu/vlastinger
Dr. Hannah Lin
J. Vance and Florence Highland Johnson Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Specialization: Chinese Linguistics and pedagogy; Chinese Pragmatics; Chinese Cultural Studies
Email: Huey.Lin@mail.wvu.edu
Website: http://community.wvu.edu/~hhl001
Dr. Shaodan Luo
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Specialization: Classical Chinese; Pre-modern Chinese Literature; Librarianship in Chinese Collection
Email: Shaodan.Luo@mail.wvu.edu
Tania de Miguel Magro
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook
Email: Tania.deMiguelMagro@mail.wvu.edu
Website: http://community.wvu.edu/~td020/Home.html
Kathleen E. McNerney
Professor
Ph.D. University of New Mexico
Specialization: Catalan language and literature,
Women Writers, Spanish literature and culture
Email: kmcnerney@as.wvu.edu
Twyla Meding
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Specialization: French, 17th-century French literature
Email: tmeding2@wvu.edu
Jennifer E. Orlikoff
Teaching Assistant Professor
Ph. D. Rutgers University
Specialization: French Language and Literature, French Literature of the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries, Feminist Criticism, Methodology Second Language Acquisition
Email: Jennifer.Orlikoff@mail.wvu.edu
Johan Seynnaeve
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University
Specialization: General linguistics, sociolinguistics,
phonology
Email: jseynnae@wvu.edu
Janice S. Spleth
Professor
Ph.D. Rice University
Specialization: French, Francophone literature and culture,
19th-century French drama
Email: jspleth@wvu.edu
Sandra Stjepanovic
Assistant Professor
Ph. D. University of Connecticut
Specialization: Linguistics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics.
Email: sastjepanovic@mail.wvu.edu
Annastella Vester
(Contemporary Italian Language & Literature)
Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
(Spanish, Hispanic Linguistics, Syntax)
INSTRUCTORS
Tracy N. Dingess
(TESOL, CALL)
Stacy Fint
IEP Director
M.A. West Virginia University
Email: sfint@att.net
Beatrice Malvisi
(Italian)
Teresa Neves
Instructor
Ed.D. West Virginia University
Specialization: English as a Second Language
Email: mneves@mix.wvu.edu
Asako No
Instructor
M.A.. West Virginia University
Specialization: Japanese Language Instruction
Email: Asako.No@mail.wvu.edu
Joselin Tovar
Part-time Lecturer
M.A. West Virginia University
Specialization: Spanish Language and Literature
Email: jtovar@wvu.edu
STAFF
Carolyn Pena-Ariet
Administrative Associate
Email: Carolyn.Pena-Ariet@mail.wvu.edu
Penny Thompson
Administrative Secretary
Email: Mary.Thompson@mail.wvu.edu
Robyn Wade
Administrative Secretary
Email: robyn.wade@mail.wvu.edu